Antisemitism

1. Poland: Knife-wielding anti-Semites attack security guard escorting Israeli students.

 Two Poles, one of them armed with a knife, attacked a security guard who was escorting an Israeli student delegation in Poland.

The security guard neutralized the attackers.

There were no casualties.

According to Polish media, the anti-Semites were drunk.

2. Norway prosecutor: Rapper’s ‘F**king Jews’ slur could be criticism of Israel.

Top legal official Tor-Aksel Busch says Kaveh Kholardi, who cursed Jews on stage during Oslo pro-diversity event, won’t be charged with hate speech

JTA — A Norwegian rapper who cursed Jews while performing at an event in Oslo promoting multiculturalism will not be charged with hate speech because his words may have been criticism of Israel, prosecutors said.

Kaveh Kholardi said “f***ing Jews” on stage at an event last year for which he was hired by the city.

(Diversity: “They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they say it does”

-Paraphrase Inigo Montoya)

3. 2 seriously hurt in Ashdod building collapse

A building in Ashdod partially collapsed after several gas balloons exploded Thursday evening. Two people were seriously injured in the collapse.

 

Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah paramedics arrived on the scene to treat the injured.

United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Avi Amar said: “When I arrived at the scene together with an ambulance team from United Hatzalah we saw a massive amount of debris due to a partial building collapse. Firefighters pulled out two people from the wreckage whom we treated at the scene before they were transported to the hospital. They were in serious and moderate to serious condition.”

 

MDA emergency medic Eliyahu Edri added, “This is a very complex event, the one-story structure collapsed completely and there was a lot of destruction. Together with the firefighting forces, we worked quickly to rescue the two men who were trapped and suffered very serious injuries all over their bodies. We quickly took them to ambulances and they were evacuated while continuing life-saving medical treatment to Assuta Hospital in the city.”

The building which collapsed was a restaurant on Martin Buber Street.

(Funny how most news sources write this off as a “gas explosion”. When really it was a terrorist attack with gas filled balloons. Fascinating.)

4. WHY THE DEMOCRATS WON’T TAKE ON ANTI-SEMITISM

We don’t have national conversations about anti-Semitism because the problem can’t be narrowed down to an easily blamed demographic. The Democrats invariably try to blame anti-Semitism on the usual suspects, white male Republicans living more than two hundred miles from a Starbucks, but the largest toll of violent anti-Semitic attacks tend to fall on New York City’s black neighborhoods.

 

There is no single demographic for anti-Semitism. It’s a bigotry blasted out by Farrakhan supporters in Crown Heights, but it’s also harbored by white Elizabeth Warren supporters in Chelsea. Rep. Ilhan Omar is an immigrant from Somalia, a country with no Jews, but picked up the bigotry from Arab Muslims. And some of the worst anti-Semites aren’t black or white, Muslim or Christian, they’re Jewish in origin.

 

Even on the internet, some of the most militant anti-Semitic figures came from Jewish families.

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It is a weird weird day out there.

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